I FEEL SO BAD FOR ATHEISTS!

Well stop it right now.

It's pointless.

You don't feel bad for yourself, do you? 

You ARE an atheist after all!

Yes you are.

The word atheist merely means someone who doesn't believe in the existence of a god.

Humans have invented thousands of gods and godesses including Mithras, Zeus, Poseidon, Nerthus, Cybele (The Magna Mater or Great Mother).

If there's even one of these gods and godesses that you don't believe in, then you're an atheist.

It hasn't made your life sad or bad, has it?

Being an atheist hasn't made you evil or a Satan-worshipper?

But if you must insist on the definition of an atheist as someone who doesn't believe in your god, then that's me.

I can't speak for all atheists but I do have a happy, fulfilling life.

My life has meaning because I have a mind that can contemplate my place in an incredible universe that is so much more wondrous than religion has imagined it to be.

My life has meaning because I love and am loved.

My life is enriched by knowledge and science.

I don't fear hell because hell doesn't exist.

I'm not good because I think that'll get me to heaven: I’m better than that because I try to be good without the promise of a heavenly reward.

I don't need some very old writings to tell me what's right and wrong: humans' long experience of living together in communities has taught us what behaviour produces a more peaceful, satisfying existence.

I certainly don’t miss the thought that there's someone watching everything I do.

Or that there’s someone who'll judge me by very harsh standards and watch me burn in hell if I make the wrong choices.

I don't miss all the bible stories that don't make sense and that contradict each other (and there are plenty of those).

I don't miss St. Paul telling me I'm a second class citizen because I'm a woman.

I don't miss worrying whether I'll be damned because I've chosen the wrong religion.

I was born atheist and so were you. 

Neither you nor I came out of our mothers' womb with a belief in any gods.

And I don't know about you but I was born just fine the first time, thank you.